WEEK. ALL RIGHT, JASON, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, SOME IOWANS ARE RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT NEW PROPOSED STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PROPOSAL WOULD REMOVE THE PHRASE CLIMATE ...

This created opportunities for the further evolution of the written word. Monks were busy for hundreds of years copying religious texts, but curiously (to us) they didn't bother to put spaces between ...

The words "mama", "cookie", and "paper" might seem innocuous and common enough, but they share a linguistic quality that's statistically rare within the world's collective lexicon: They all contain a ...

This June, we explored the evolution of the word “pride” and how it became connected with the modern gay rights movement. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase ...